Exercises For L3 Spinal Stenosis

January 27 - DAY OF REMEMBRANCE

January 27, 2011

DAY OF REMEMBRANCE

Poetry

A pair of red shoes

Joyce Lussier

There is a pair of red shoes

number twenty-four

nearly new:

on inner sole shown
still brand factory

"Schulze Monaco."

there is a pair of red shoes

atop a pile of shoes
childhood

Buchenwald
more in there is a pile of blonde curls
of black hair and brown
Buchenwald
were used to make blankets for soldiers
not deprecated anything
them and the children undressed and shaved them
before pushing in the gas chambers

there a pair of red shoes
of red shoes for Sunday
Buchenwald

were a child of three years
perhaps three and a half years

who knows what color his eyes were

burned in furnaces

but his tears
we can imagine

know how the children weep

even his feet
We can imagine them

shoe number twenty-four

for eternity

because the feet of the dead children
not grow

there are a couple of red shoes

Buchenwald

nearly new

because the feet of the dead children

not consume the soles ...

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